, that is all associated with him, “ceux de son entourage.”
That
should express the ‘feast of the New Moon’ is only natural, though Lepsius has pointed out serious difficulties on the subject.
But
also expresses the number nine. Whence in this relation arises the Egyptian conception of the number nine? Is it the round (we should say the ‘square’) number, three times three? It certainly is merely a round number in many instances, but what is still more certain is that the same expression meaning ‘circle of gods’ and ‘nine gods,’ the circle was supposed to consist of nine gods, and was enlarged to companies of eighteen or twenty-seven. It is, I am sure, perfectly idle work to look for more profound reasons for the theory of the ‘Ennead.’[[18]] Every god of importance had his
